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FBI Director James Comey attributes a spike in violent crime to the "Ferguson effect," believing that police are fearful that bystanders will film them. 

President Obama's rejection of the Keystone pipeline is the culmination of years of organizing and mobilization. Time to take a moment to celebrate a victory and draw lessons about how victories are won. 

Directed by journalist and filmmaker Avi Lewis (The Take) and produced in conjunction with Naomi Klein's bestselling book of the same name, this urgent dispatch on climate change contends that the greatest crisis we have ever faced also offers us the opportunity to address and correct the inhumane systems that have created it.

Seven centuries ago, an entire society performed one of the greatest vanishing acts in human history when they fled their homes in the American Southwest. Archaeologists are trying to work out why they left.

Socialist? Populist? Progressive? Joseph Schwartz and Gar Alperovitz discuss Senator Bernie Sanders’ plans for extending democracy to the economic sphere and attacking inequalities in wealth and income.

Donald Trump started out with nothing but a million dollars and a dream. And since a million dollars is chump change to him now, Stephen has a suggestion for him.

Alabama Shakes has a unique soulful rock sound. This is from their new (second) album, Sound & Color, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200.

Meet Dr. Wanda Evans-Brewer. She has been teaching for 20 years and has a PhD in Education. She is also living in poverty.

Shooting almost entirely within a cab circling the streets of Tehran, the great director Jafar Panahi (Offside, This Is Not a Film) offers a multilayered mosaic of life in today's Iran.

Bernie Sanders explains in a few sentences why we need to make public college tuition free. His campaign is helping to spark the student movement for free tuition and other left causes.